Senegal (6) - Joal - Fadiouth

After the cruise on the Senegal River, a bus drive back to Saint Louis…

… and the following day a long car drive down to Joal.

Joal is a little coast town on the mainland…

…  and is connected with a footbridge to the little island Fadiouth. No cars here, everything is calm, clean. The island is more or less artificial, completely built up by sea shells which crack under your feet. There is a Christian domination, but as usual in Senegal, Muslims and Christians live peacefully together…  as well as the goats and the pigs. Assisting to a mass at the local church with the wonderful, powerful, singing (so different from what you may hear in a French church) was a real pleasure!  Another proof of the nice co-habitation is the combined Christian and Muslim cemetery on a separate little island. From the cemetery you can admire some millet granaries.

Back on the mainland there is a calm nice beach…

… but when you follow it northwards, you realize that Joal is a leading fishing centre. You will find hundreds of pirogues, fishermen, goats and pigs … and, as usual, smiling kids who want to be photographed. Some pirogues carry people along the coast. The horse carriages are also used to allow embarking with more less dry feet. 

The two young girls were carrying fish on the way home. They didn’t even look on the young men doing their wrestling training.